Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous